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May 11, 2011

WIP Wednesday Week 4

This week certainly flew by and here it is WIP Wednesday again. I am linking up with Lee over at Freshly Pieced for another week of blog hopping to see what every one else is up to. I really like having the opportunity of linking up and keeping track of my WIP's.

1.5 inch strips, Postage Stamp quilt

First up is my Postage Stamp quilt. I had started this forever ago and had just about forgotten about it but then I started linking up with WIP Wednesdays and got it back out to work on. It has been a little over a year now. I did quiet a bit of work on it this week. It takes a while to sew these 17 strips together. I usually work on 2 sets at a time. I completed 6 strip sets and had 7 already done. The ones I just did are on the left side of the photo. I ran out of the white/off white for it. I have been using whatever I had. I will buy some remnants from the scrap basket at the LQS to finish this up. I have no idea how much more I will need. I wanted to make it a bit larger than a twin size but we will see how it goes. It will be an on going project for quiet some time.

Hexie Diamonds, 1 inch

Next, my hexies. I have been sitting in the evenings and working on them. I wanted to see how they were going to look. I need to cut the background squares or at least some of them. I did come up with a plan but I am not sure that I will stick to it, depends on what it looks like and if I feel like doing more. Originally I had planned on just 9 diamonds, I wanted to keep it small but we shall have to wait and see.

Everything else is still the way it was last week. I didn't have a lot of time to sew this week as I had a lot of errands to run and was not home 2 different days. I would love to prepare the backing for the 9 -Patch quilt so it will be ready later in the summer. I also have a string quilt that I made a couple of months ago that needs to be quilted but it will have to wait as well. Photo of that maybe next week.

Thanks again everyone for coming and your wonderful comments. I feel so encouraged by all of them and hopefully I will get these projects finished up in the next few months and will move onto new ones. I enjoy visiting your blogs.